Sandra E. Peterson Quotes

You have to be passionate about your business. If you don't love your business, you are doing a terrible disservice to your customers and clients, your team members and business partners, your family and yourself.

When teams see coach Gruden and myself run out on the field, they know, 'Hey, man, we are in for it mentally today.'

It's always great when you get a lot of people pushing themselves to do better, be better, invent better, better serve, better lead customers in new directions.

A group of amazingly high achievers can be brought together and play together, and all believe that they are competing for something bigger than themselves. Those players are so used to being patted on the back and told how good they are. Frankly, those are usually the hardest people to remind that they are aspiring to achieve something bigger than themselves.

If you want to give 100 per cent, you have to feel that you are important for the manager.

I think how football works, the way you have to look at football, that is the difference between Leicester and Newcastle. There is big motivation here to keep growing and to get better here at Leicester. I didn't feel they had it at Newcastle.

Serving ice cream isn't exactly like serving in state government, but what I learned guides me today.

I've been playing basketball for a long time, so I know when the energy isn't there and I need to step up and get the team going.

I love the U.S.A. women's soccer team. I'm really a fan of them, how they play as a team, the spirit they have. They really motivate a lot of people.

It feels good when your teammates are telling you on the bench that they're hyped.

I just hope I can give positive energy to the squad.

You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.

If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader.

Leaders have to search for the heart on a team, because the person who has it can bring out the best in everybody else.

As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated.

Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.

Attitude is the whole thing in football. Every team has the talent and the coaching. Motivation makes the difference. The teams that win stay healthy and interested.

Just wanted to inspire my teammates. Obviously, I didn't do enough.

In retailing, the formula happens to be a basic liking for human beings, plus integrity, plus industry, plus the ability to see the other fellow's point of view.

Leadership is the ability to encourage the best efforts of others in working toward a desirable goal.

An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So I try to make every player on my team feel he's the spark keeping our machine in motion.

To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business.

In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.

Retailers should not be filling their minds with all the things that are wrong, with how the economy is going, or with trying to get someplace in the business world. They should enjoy being in this moment and in this day and serving the people who come in.

Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.